the wrong side of forty
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Simpson, though on the wrong side of forty, well off and eminently lovable, was unmarried.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
"You do not think the term strong enough? but when a man gets on the wrong side of forty it is, I think, as much as he can expect."
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs
As a man of experience, just on the wrong side of forty, it was not difficult to see the cards each held.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon
He stared at the moonlit night, his eyes full of a wistfulness that was extraordinarily boyish in a man on the wrong side of forty.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
He was also a fine seaman, but the wrong side of forty.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
